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I've started using CopyTrans, and found I love it. Easy, works with all three of my iPods. Bidirectional.

Uhh... I didn't even know TV guide is still printed. [edit] Airtwardo just explained it to me.

Good point. Brian probably has that option open to him. I live in the sticks, and there isn't a jumper on our DZ I'd trust with a soldering iron and my gear. Well...Maybe Cliff...

I'll try to describe, but a picture would be worth 1000... You have a layer on the outside of the cable. Then there is a plaited copper shield. This is the ground. Inside the copper shield is another plastic shield, and then a very tiny/thin piece of copper wire. If the tiny, thin piece of copper wire in the middle makes contact with the plaited shield, you'll short out the AVoutput of the camera. Not good. So....when you cut the cable ends off, carefully cut back the top layer plastic so the plaited shield remains. Carefully peel back the excess copper plaiting and cut it all off too. All you'll have left in that short "pigtail" is the thin plastic shield and the very tiny, thin copper wire. Use electrical tape or better still, heat shrink tubing to seal this thin, tiny wire from touching anything else. Repeat on the other cut end. Does that make sense as you look at the cable end?

Use, you can cut the unused cables, IIRC they all share the same ground. Just be sure you isolate the remaining positive cables with heat shrink or something.

Sad that they're adopting a similar marketing strategy. In the bottom of the page it shows several skydiving centers that Skyride also used, ie; Skydive Logan Skydiving Logan Skydive Provo Skydiving Provo Skydive Orem Skydiving Orem Skydive Salt Lake City Skydiving Salt Lake City Skydive Ogden Skydiving Ogden Skydive Clearfield Skydiving Clearfield. Skyride had Skydive Utah as part of their "list" of dropzones, but pulled it after letters and television news reports came around. Other than Ogden, none of those towns/cities have dropzones, and for several reasons never will/could.

I'd suspect it's the same people as Skyride because the keywords are identical, fake dropzones that don't exist are the same ones that are on the Skyride sites, and just as the Skyride site wanted to send folks in Salt Lake City to Moab (four hour drive) so does this new site. However, this new site does mention Ogden and Tooele, the only two DZ's with turbines, the only DZ's within 45 mins of SLC. wow...

The 5d is gonna be a bitch to match, but Color will get you close. Colorista will get you closer. The "jello" (horizontal macroblocking) is expected from low-bitrate, non-profiled MP4. the 720p is pretty nice with 60p, but the slo mo only makes the horizontal look more strange.

so now you're paiging, not knocking? Make up yer mind!

I think you oughta put a mount inside your container so we can see those lines lifting out. Maybe a mount on your chin cup with the stickum tape. j/k Serious about the in-canopy, even if it's just for 7 seconds from deploy to ground. It'll cut well as long as it's not a primary view cam. Because it's 4:2:0 colorspace, it'll allow you to match it up reasonably well using Color.

You're not seeing it on a big screen. That's where you'll see the macro-blocking of this, and other small format mp4 cams. Don't be pissed, you're in the best situation. Macroblocking is bad enough in AVCHD as it is. Very wide lens plus mp4 shrunk down for the web=good picture. Same thing on a 42" panel...not so good.

I've never compared Voltaic to Revolver for speed, but running Revolver on my newer MBP, it's noticeably faster. How much of that is due to CPU and how much is due to a newer code build...dunno. Since you've got Voltaic, perhaps you could download the trial of Revolver and compare?

Not really. You're STILL better off converting, unfortunately, because here's what's happening on a Mac with AVCHD (Premiere). You ingest. It's native AVCHD. In the background there is a conversion taking place so the CPU can decode it without Apple knowing it's AVCHD. When you play back, that same encoder/wrapper is re-encoding the file so you can see it in the preview window. It's faster in SnowLeopard because you have less overhead, so the conversion is faster. But it's still going through two extra cycles that other formats and PC users don't suffer through. On a Dell 6400, I'm seeing full resolution, full frame rate from 16Mbps AVCHD. And that's a fairly ancient computer by iCore standards. It sucks, I know...but conversion before putting it on the timeline truly is your "best" option if you're insistent on using a Mac. It just simply isn't efficient by comparison. Not intended as a Mac v PC commentary. I use both. It's well known for video work I prefer the PC. Vegas, Edius, SpeedEdit, Premiere CS4 all natively access the AVCHD stream. Avid requires a conversion, as does FCP.

AVCHD works fine on a Mac, just that it requires a conversion for FC that PC's don't have to deal with. Depending on the converter you use it can be reasonably near real-time, or nowhere near real-time. If you're going to use high profile AVCHD, plan on slow conversions. Consider Premiere CS4 as an option if speed is your need. For MPEG formats, a Mac will never, ever be optimal, but if you don't mind slower workflows...there are many, many conversion tools that are significantly faster than using FC to convert on import. Cineform Neo is FAST. Revolver is good.

See the problem we have here is, Ordinary Guy is a genuine folk hero, bigger than any Kanye. Kanye can just scream "bitches," "ho's," "Ni**a," etc. Ordinary Guy just does his thing and hes a hero.

You sure? Purple against red rock will really stand out

My first cutaway was due to doubled wrapped tubestows on the locking stows. The packer that packed me didn't know about tubestows. I now use rubber bands.

Kanye West just interrupted Patrick Swayze's death to say that Michael Jackson's was better...

This guy doesn't quit.

I was a die-hard Macolyte in the early years (Still have my Lisa and IISi) but when SlowTools became shit, I turned to PC for the majority of my work. Now I run both, have two laptops with Bootcamp running both Snow Leopard and XP or Vista. I find I work on the PC side more than the Mac side. Mac is 100% hype and 90% functional compared to PC, IMO, but it is indeed "prettier" and has a few things I love over the PC. To say one or the other is easier is fallacy. They're just tools. But...there are a LOT of things you can't do on a Mac that you can do on a super cheap PC. And almost nothing that a Mac can do and a PC can't. In the end, they're just tools. That said, no PC laptop can compare to the build and elegance of a MacBook Pro, running Vista, IMO.

A vote for SkyKnights and Omro.

Spence, Are you refering to that yo yo who insisted on driving his car on the runway at ST Mary's GA last year, even after he was warned to stop? Him and everyone like him. There is a small percentage of people who come to events just to try to fuck things up. Very sad but true. I think you'll find "that guy" everywhere. Had a "friend" that I mistakenly took to a very high profile Sony event. He got drunk, and then ran up to me while I was speaking with the Junior VP of Sony Software, stuck a balloon against my ear and popped it with a pin. He ran off giggling like a little girl. If he hadn't been wearing one of our corporate shirts, it probably wouldn't have been so embarassing. Yes, he is a skydiver. The point is, there are *always* goofs and dumbasses around to screw over your hard work. If you ever find a means of identifying and stopping the goofs, lemme know, please?

Oh hell...if Purple is going....I'm staying home. See ya Thursday, J

thank you, John. It's a good read.